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La Dispute, Des Ark, Gates

When: Mon., June 13, 7:30 p.m. 2016Price: $18

In November, post-hardcore quintet La Dispute released the feature-length documentary Tiny Dots, filmed throughout the course of the tour that followed the release of the band’s excellent 2014 record, Rooms of the House. Fans interviewed for the documentary continually asserted that La Dispute’s music is “real.” Indeed, like brethren bands Touché Amoré or Pianos Become the Teeth, La Dispute portrays the personal as political. Jordan Dreyer’s poetic speak-shout vocals paint intricate pictures of the nightmarish and banal aspects of everyday life, while the band explodes behind his strange, often painful stories. Des Ark does all this, too—and probably does it better. —Patrick Wall